Female Purple Emperor

On Saturday 16th July, I drove down to a local wood and was pleased to see around 8 Silver Washed Fritillaries, several Southern Hawkers too, but none were posing for the camera and at the main area, several Purple Emperor several flying up in the trees some perched but never long enough to get pictures but memorably on one occasion, a fine female Purple Emperor flew down to the ground by the banana skins and I was all alone so I was able to carefully go in resonably close and get a few pictures. She was there for several minutes before flying back up to the tree line.